The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.

What's the use of talking? You can see for yourself that this is a barbarous country; the people have no morals; and the boredom!